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Profiles
Dr Allegra Cattani
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
School of Psychology (Faculty of Health)
Dr Allegra Cattani can be contacted through arrangement with our Press Office, to speak to the media on these areas of expertise.
- Language development
- Memory development
- Bilingual
- Sensory impairment
- Down's syndrome
- Language assessment
Email publicrelations@plymouth.ac.uk to enquire.
Biography
Biography
Ph.D. , CPsychol, AFBPsS, Fellow HEA, Member of the Italian national council of psychologists
Senior Research Fellow, Baby Lab Manager
Developmental Psychology
Key publications
(2009) 'Lo sviluppo della memoria autobiografica come processo ricostruttivo' in Casonato M; Pfafflin F Pedoparafilie: prospettive psicologiche, forensi, psichiatriche
(2008) 'Preferenze emisferiche della memoria visuo-spaziale di cerchi, forme e oggetti: esistono preferenze emisferiche atipiche nei sordi?' in Bagnara C; Corazza S; Fontana S; Zuccalà A I segni parlano. Prospettive di ricerca sulla Lingua dei Segni Italiana Milano Franco Angeli 171-182
(2019) 'Are Future Psychologists Willing to Accept and Use a Humanoid Robot in Their Practice? Italian and English Students’ Perspective' Frontiers in Psychology 10, , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Gestures and words in naming: Evidence from cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparison' Language Learning 69, (3) 709-746 Publisher Site , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the cognistat for its use in Arabic speaking population with acquired brain injury' European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Children's scale errors: A by-product of lexical development?' Developmental Science 22, (2) 0-0 , DOI Open access
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
- Foundation in Psychology and Applying psychology
- Language development in typical and atypical populations
- Psychosocial development in people with learning disabilities
- Psychology for health studies
- Evidence-based practice and critical awareness
Research
Research
Research interests
Developmental neuropsychology
- Lexical and gesture development
- Lexical assessment of monolingual and bilingual children
- Language and memory development in children and adults (Deaf/hard of hearing, bilingual children)
- Visuo-spatial skills and its influence in brain development of deaf and signing adults
- Face perception in the infants
Grants & contracts
2013-2016 ESRC, Lexicon development in bilingual toddler, ca. £860.00. Co-I (with C. Floccia, J. Goslin, L. White, K. Plunkett).
2013 - 2015 FP7 Marie Curie Research Fellowship, ORATOR, for Beata Joanna Grzyb £301,559. Co-I (with A. Cangelosi and C. Floccia).
2013 EuCogIII Bilingual brains, bilingual minds. Summer School Event EuCog €10,000. (with C. Floccia and L. White).
2013-2014 IHC pump priming bursary Investigating the validity and reliability of the Nintendo Wii Balance Board for assessment of standing balance in children and teenagers, Co-I with L. Bunn, D. Cowie, D. Bradie and J. Marsden, £1555.
2012 –2013 Vice-Chancellor Community Research Award, Increasing the communicative opportunities and skills of students with multiple physical and sensory disabilities. £9,296. Principal investigator with Co-I T. Gribble and R. Firth (Dame Hannah Rogers Trust).
2012 – 2014 British Academy/Leverhulme, WING Words in Game test. £9,990. Principal investigator with Co-PI C. Floccia and A. Krott.
2011 - 2014 TEMPUS European project LMPSM No 516721-Tempus-1-2011-1-RO-TEMPUS-JPCR, ‘Lifelong learning’ project. Degree and Master Courses in Social Work and Social Psychology in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia, €11,068 (with Penelope Welbourne).
2011 – 2012 IHC Pump priming bursary, Early English receptive and expressive vocabulary assessment: Building a British English PinG. £1,000. Principal and sole investigator.
2008-2009 TQEF-Research Informed Teaching Initiative, Embedding research skills training into undergraduate mental health programmes, £10,303 (with Fraser Reid and Paul Farrand).
2006-2008 CEPPL grant Innovation Fund Scheme, Survey of teaching staff and disabled student's experience, £5,000 (with Deirdre Ford).
2003-2005 ESRC, Object processing in the two hemispheres in hearing and deaf adults, £46,056. Principal investigator 100% FTE and Research Fellow with Co-PI J. Clibbens and R. Campbell.
2001-2003 European Marie Curie Fellowship, Hemispheric specialisation of Deaf and Hearing adults in visual memory, €114,272, ca £72,000. Principal investigator 100% FTE and Research Fellow (supervisor J. Clibbens).
Publications
Publications
Key publications
(2009) 'Lo sviluppo della memoria autobiografica come processo ricostruttivo' in Casonato M; Pfafflin F Pedoparafilie: prospettive psicologiche, forensi, psichiatriche
(2008) 'Preferenze emisferiche della memoria visuo-spaziale di cerchi, forme e oggetti: esistono preferenze emisferiche atipiche nei sordi?' in Bagnara C; Corazza S; Fontana S; Zuccalà A I segni parlano. Prospettive di ricerca sulla Lingua dei Segni Italiana Milano Franco Angeli 171-182
(2019) 'Are Future Psychologists Willing to Accept and Use a Humanoid Robot in Their Practice? Italian and English Students’ Perspective' Frontiers in Psychology 10, , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Gestures and words in naming: Evidence from cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparison' Language Learning 69, (3) 709-746 Publisher Site , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the cognistat for its use in Arabic speaking population with acquired brain injury' European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Children's scale errors: A by-product of lexical development?' Developmental Science 22, (2) 0-0 , DOI Open access
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
(2021) 'An Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI in 17 Arabic Dialects for Children Aged 8 to 30 Months' Language Learning and Development 1-22 , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Are Future Psychologists Willing to Accept and Use a Humanoid Robot in Their Practice? Italian and English Students’ Perspective' Frontiers in Psychology 10, , DOI Open access
(2019) 'Gestures and words in naming: Evidence from cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparison' Language Learning 69, (3) 709-746 Publisher Site , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Children's scale errors are a natural consequence of learning to associate objects with actions: A computational model' Developmental Science e12777-e12777 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the cognistat for its use in Arabic speaking population with acquired brain injury' European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Children's scale errors: A by-product of lexical development?' Developmental Science 22, (2) 0-0 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'I: INTRODUCTION' Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 83, (1) 7-29 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'II: METHODS' Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 83, (1) 30-42 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'III: ANALYSES AND RESULTS FOR STUDY 1: ESTIMATING THE EFFECT OF LINGUISTIC DISTANCE ON VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT' Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 83, (1) 43-60 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'IV: RESULTS FOR STUDIES 2 AND 3: THE UKBTAT MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION TO NONTARGET ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE LEARNERS' Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 83, (1) 61-67 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'V: GENERAL DISCUSSION' Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 83, (1) 68-80 , DOI Open access
(2018) 'Vocabulary of 2-Year-Olds Learning English and an Additional Language: Norms and Effects of Linguistic Distance' Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Perceived language proficiency and pain assessment by registered and student nurses in native English-speaking and EAL children aged 4-7 years' Journal of Clinical Nursing , DOI Open access
(2017) 'Decreased attention to object size information in scale errors performers' Infant Behavior and Development 47, 72-82 , DOI Open access
(2015) 'Monodialectal and multidialectal infants' representation of familiar words' J Child Lang 42, (2) 447-465 , DOI Open access
(2014) 'Cultural responses to pain in UK children of primary school age: a mixed-methods study' Nurs Health Sci 16, (2) 186-192 , DOI Open access
(2014) 'How much exposure to English is necessary for a bilingual toddler to perform like a monolingual peer in vocabulary assessment?' International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 49, (6) 649-671 , DOI Open access
(2012) 'Categorical and coordinate spatial relations of object processing in deaf signing adults' COGNITIVE PROCESSING 13, S39-S39
(2011) 'The impact of language on the expression and assessment of pain in children' Intensive Crit Care Nurs 27, (5) 235-243 , DOI
(2010) 'Communicative and linguistic development in preterm children: a longitudinal study from 12 to 24 months' International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 45, (2) 162-173 , DOI Open access
(2009) 'Communicative and linguistic development in preterm children: a longitudinal study from 12 to 24 months' Int J Lang Commun Disord 1-17 , DOI
(2007) '"Visual Memory for Shapes in Deaf Signers and Nonsigners and in Hearing Signers and Nonsigners: Atypical Lateralization and Enhancement": Correction' Neuropsychology 21, (3) 399-399 , DOI
(2007) 'Visual memory for shapes in deaf signers and nonsigners and in hearing signers and nonsigners: atypical lateralization and enhancement' Neuropsychology 21, (1) 114-121 , DOI
(2006) 'Bone pain, electromagnetic waves, and piezoelectricity' International Journal of Artificial Organs 29, (5) 548-548
(2005) 'Atypical lateralization of memory for location: effects of deafness and sign language use' Brain Cogn 58, (2) 226-239 , DOI
(1998) 'Teaching sign language to hearing children as a possible factor in cognitive enhancement' J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ 3, (2) 135-142 , DOI
Chapters
(2009) 'Lo sviluppo della memoria autobiografica come processo ricostruttivo' in Casonato M; Pfafflin F Pedoparafilie: prospettive psicologiche, forensi, psichiatriche
(2008) 'Preferenze emisferiche della memoria visuo-spaziale di cerchi, forme e oggetti: esistono preferenze emisferiche atipiche nei sordi?' in Bagnara C; Corazza S; Fontana S; Zuccalà A I segni parlano. Prospettive di ricerca sulla Lingua dei Segni Italiana Milano Franco Angeli 171-182
(2003) 'Percezione visiva e specializzazione emisferica in adulti sordi e udenti (Visual Perception and Hemispheric Specialization in Deaf and Hearing Adults)' in Usai MC; Zanobini M Psicologia del ciclo di vita Milano: Franco Angeli 393-403
Conference Papers
(2015) 'A cross-cultural study of acceptance and use of robotics by future psychology practitioners' 555-560 , DOI
(2015) 'Assessment of Cognitive Function in Arabic Speaking Population with Stroke: A pilot study' 262-262
(2014) 'Children in a wonderland: How language and scale errors may be linked' 2014 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob) Genoa, Italy 0-/-1/20140-/-1/2014IEEE 269-274 , DOI
(2014) 'Special session: Dynamic interactions between visual experiences, actions and word learning' 2014 Joint IEEE International Conferences on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob) 0-/-1/20140-/-1/2014IEEE , DOI
(2012) 'Categorical and coordinate spatial relations of object processing in deaf signing adults' 5th International Conference on Spatial Cognition University 'La Sapienza'of Rome, Rome, Italy 9-/-0/20129-/-0/2012
(2011) 'Early assessment of English for bilingual children with different percentages of exposure' Child Language Seminar University of Newcastle, Newcastle 6-/-0/20116-/-0/2011
(2010) 'DEVELOPMENT OF THE PROBLEMS OF TOLERANCE OF METALLIC PROSTHESIS IN HUMAN BODY' 457-457
(2008) 'ELECTROMAGNETIC EFFECTS DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF A METALLIC PROSTHESIS IN HUMAN BODY' 612-612
(2007) 'Hemispheric preference in spatial and visual memory for circles, shapes and objects in deaf and hearing signers and nonsigners' Presented at British Psychological Society, Developmental Psychology Section, Annual Conference: University of Plymouth 8-/-0/20078-/-0/2007
(2007) 'Memoria visuo-spaziale in sordi e udenti segnanti e nonsegnanti' in poster 3 Convegno Nazionale sulla lingua dei segni. Verona, Italy 3-/-0/20073-/-0/2007
(2007) 'Preferenze emisferiche della memoria visuo-spaziale di cerchi, forme e oggetti: esistono preferenze emisferiche atipiche nei sordi?' Presented at 3 Convegno Nazionale sulla lingua dei segni. Verona, Italy 3-/-0/20073-/-0/2007
(2006) 'Visuo-spatial memory in hearing and deaf signers and non-signers' in poster Conference for Educators of the Deaf: Frank Barnes School, London
(2006) 'Elettrosensitività in una paziente con protesi di titanio e dolori cronici dovuti alle oscillazioni delle ossa causate dalle onde elettromagnetiche emesse dai sistemi di radiocomunicazione mobile' L’esperienza del dolore. III Congresso Nazionale di Clinica Psicologica,Bologna, Italy 1-/-1/20061-/-1/2006
(2004) 'Short-term memory for position and hemisphere advantage in hearing and deaf signers and non-signers' Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research TISLR 8, Barcelona, Spain, 9-/-0/20040-/-1/2004
(2004) 'Can piezoelectricity be involved in bone pain caused by electromagnetic waves?' in Rom CD; pdf O-R Proceedings of the XIVth ICMMB International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, Bologna, Italy 9-/-0/20049-/-0/2004
(2003) 'Effects of auditory deprivation and sign language use on visual location and working memory tasks: Evidence for atypical hemispheric lateralisation?' XX BPS Annual Cognitive Section Conference. Reading, UK.
Presentations and posters
'Wee-Wii-validation: Investigating the validity and reliability of the Nintendo Wii Balance Board for assessment of standing balance in young children' Open access
Other Publications
(2019) WinG Words in Game test. A vocabulary assessment for pre-schooler children. English adaptation and standardisation. St Mabyn PL30 3BN Stass Publications
Personal
Personal
Conferences organised
2016 Cognition Institute Conference. Symposium on Language learning and bilingualism. Plymouth 7-8 July.
2013 EuCogIII Summer School, Bilingual minds, bilingual machines, Plymouth 24-28 June.
2007 BPS Developmental Section conference, Plymouth, 29-31 August.
2006 EVOLANG6 Sixth Internat. Conf. on the Evolution of Language, Rome, Italy 12-15 April.
2005 Workshop on Development and Disability, Plymouth, 6 December.